This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

This Week In Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, And Stuxnet Before Stuxnet Was Cool No comments by: Mike Kershaw May 1, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privileges escalations are never good, but typically are not “Internet-melters”: they are significantly less dangerous than remote vulnerabilities, but are often combined with a remote vulnerability to gain complete access to a system. This time, the vulnerability is in the Linux kernel handling of cryptographic functions used in IPSec.

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